Game board



Oct. 24, 1939. J, KlNG 2,177,182

GAME BOARD Filed March 51, 1939 [1V VEN TOR Jess/ 14 B. K/Na A TTORNE i and two oppositely arranged fields, one for each delineated on the central field in any preferred Lof holes to receive the playing pieces as the game are arranged diagonally opposite with respect to Patented Oct. 24, 1939 I 1 b f UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE GAME BOARD Joseph B. King, Houston, Tex., assignor, by mesne assignments, of one-half to Fred H. Nichols, Houston, Tex.

Application March 31, 1939, Serial No. 265,212

2 Claims. (01. 273131) This invention relates toa game board. necessarily, in alignment. The central hole 1a, An object of the invention is to provide a board of the field 6 and the central holes 1b of each for playing a game requiring skill and embodying series on each side of the central hole la are a central playing field, approximately rectangular preferably located within a surrounding cross 8 player disposed on oppsite sides of the central manner.

field and each formed. with two sections disposed There are the oppositely disposed player fields along side the corresponding margins of the cen- 9, ID. Each player field is composed of two tral field, each of said fields containing series sections 9a, 9a and Ifia, Illa. The player fields is played; the central field, as shown, and their sections lie More specifically, the invention comprises a adjacent the corresponding margins of said game board having a central playing field, prefercentral field. The sections of the player fields are ably rectangular, and having five series of holes, provided with two series of holes ll, each series each series having five holes and theoppositely containing five holes thus making ten holes in arranged player fields, hereinabove referred to, each section. The series of holes of each section each composed of two sections and each section are preferably parallel and also parallel to the having two series of holes with five holes to the corresponding series of the central field.

series thus making sixty-five holes in all, the The player fields, for convenience, are of holes of each series hereinabove referred to, different colors as indicated by Figure l. 2 preferably being in substantial alignment. As hereinabove indicated the game is designed In a preferred form of the invention there is to be played by two players on opposite sides of preferably delineated on the board a cross conthe board. The sixty-one playing pieces are taining the central hole of the central section, placed, one in the center hole la and the others and also'the central hole of each series on each in the holes outside of the cross 8, thus leaving side of said central hole making five holes, in four vacant holes 1b. The object of the game is all, contained within said cross. to clear the playing fields 9 and Ill of all playing The invention also embodies a set of playing pieces and the winner of the game is the one pieces, four less than the total number of holes that first succeeds in clearing his field. It someand preferably in the forms of balls. times happens in the course of a game, that 30.

With the above and other objects in view the neither player is able to completely clear his field invention has particular relation to certain novel and in that event the winner is the one having features of construction, arrangement of parts the smallest number of playing pieces in his field and use, an example of which is given in this at the end of the game. If the game becomes specification and illustrated in the accompanying blocked, that is if the playing pieces are so disdrawing, whereinposed that neither player can make another play Figure 1 shows a plan view of the board, and and there are an equal number of playing pieces Figure 2 shows a cross-sectional view taken on in the fields, 9 and 10, the game results in a tie. the line 2--2 of Figure 1. It is to be observed that in playing the game, a

Referring now more particularly to the drawplayer may originate a jump or play from his own ing wherein like numerals of reference designate field or from the central field 6, but not from the the same parts in each of the figures, the numeral field of the opposing player. A play may terl designates the marginal frame for the board 2. minate, however, either in the center field l or in There are the parallel cross-strips 3, 3 arranged the players field or in the opponents field.

on opposite sides of the board and spaced in- Upon beginning, the player having a desigwardly the required distance from the correnated section, as for example the red section 9, sponding side members of the frame and forming starts the game by jumping a playing piece over the pockets 4, 4 for retaining the playing pieces another into one of the vacant holes lb the play- 5 when they are not actively in the game being ing piece jumped is removed from the play. played. The numeral 6 designates the central Thereupon the player having the blue field I0 field which is preferably rectangular and which executes a play in a similar manner and reis provided with five rows, or series, of holes as moves the jumped playing piece and the game is I, each series containing five holes making continued by the players alternately jumping a twenty-five holes in all in the central field. The playing piece as above indicated, so long as it is holes of each series are preferably, although not possible to do so. A player may jump to block piece jumped, the plays being made by the respective players alternately. There is this exception, however, that should a player be so maneuvered or so maneuver his pieces that when' his turn comes be can not make a jump, that player loses his turn and the opposing player, in that event, can make two or more successive plays until the other player is enabled to originate a play, in keeping with the rules, and then that player can again play. A play is completed'when the player removes his hand from the playing piece placed in a vacant hole and said play can not then be recalled. The player winning the game is allowed to make the first play in the succeeding game. v

The drawing and description are illustrative I merely while the broad principle of the invention player field being each formed of two sections,

the two sections of one player field lying adjacent two sides of the central field and the two sections of the other player field lying adjacent the other two sides of the centralplaying field, the central field having five series of holes with five holes in each series and each section of a player field having five series of holes with two holes in each series, each series of holes in the central field aligning with a series of holes in eachof said section on opposite sides of the central playing field.

2. A game apparatus comprising a game board having a rectangular central playing field, opposing player fields surrounding the central field and of colors distinguishable from each other and from the central playing field, said opposite player field being each formed of two sections, the two sections of one player field lying adjacent two sides of the central field and the two sections of the other player field lying adjacent the other two sides of the central playing field, the central field having five series of player spaces with five player spaces in each series and each section of a player field having five series of player spaces with two playerspaces in each series, each series ofplayer spaces in the central field alining with a series of player spaces in each of said sections on opposite sides of the central playing field. Y

JOSEPH B. KING. 

